November 13, 2024 • 33 mins
Alex Stone, there was a quick push to get the Menendez Brothers released from prison under outgoing D.A. Gascon. Nathan Hochman may delay that release. // Dodgers are remodeling the stadium // Spirit Airlines could file for bankruptcy protection in the coming weeks following year of losses // Thanksgiving Travel...going to be busy
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's k IF I am six forty and you're listening
to The Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
It is the Conway Show. All right, dig dong with you.
One of our favorite reporters that we have on constantly
from ABC is a guy named Alex Stone, and he's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
With us today. Alex, how you bub ding dong? Be
you dig dong with you? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How can we keep these Menanda's brothers in jail so
they don't kill me?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, Nathan Hoffman might be able.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To do it. Oh good, please, buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Look, when this whole thing happened, I was working with
Doug Steckler on kalis X, the FM talk station not
there partly because of me, But I remember we went
after the Menanda's brothers all day every day because they
literally shot and murdered their parents. One of the kids
went out to the car, reloaded and went in and
finished mom off, and so we went after him. And
(00:50):
then when they got sentenced, when they got convicted, I'm
their lawyer, set on the air in a press conference.
You can't get a fair trial in this city because
idiots like Conway and Steckler.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Oh you got named, yes, yes, congratulations named and I
didn't even know you were that old.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But unless the Abrams said, because of guys like that.
So when these two idiots get out of jail, gets
who they're gonna kill me?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Watch out.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Look, if you're going to kill your mom and your
dad at their home while they're eating ice cream and
watching TV, you don't think they'd slide down one of
these streets and knock me.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Off and come to you.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You know. The argument that Gara, Gillis and Gascon make
is if they are not a dangerous society, you'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No, no, keep them in prison or else. I got
to hire a security well, I don't know that kind
of money.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You might have to coming up because they've got so
many different avenues out. But today we got to spend
some time at Nathan Hawkman's home and chat with him
and sit in his backyard and talk about the case,
the Menendez case, and the thing is, I mean, he
makes it very clear he doesn't know the case well
enough yet to post the convictions. But they're time in
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prison and go through their prison records and what they've done.
He's got to go through all of that, and most
of it is confidential and he can't get to it
until he's sworn in in about two weeks, two and
a half weeks on December second. But they've got a
lot of different avenues trying to get out that they've
asked for the clemency. That's going to be up to
Governor Gavin Newso, no idea what he's going to do.
But sir Han, sir Han and some of the just
(02:24):
big names. Over the years of other Manson family members,
he has not granted them parole or clemency, So he
has a history of not doing it, so maybe he won't.
Then in about two weeks the Habeas Corpus hearing basically
claiming that there is new evidence and that they should
get a whole new trial. That'll be before Hawkman is
is in.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But Alex, what is that based on just that that
they have been sexually molested by their dad?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, the the letter and then the testimony from the
Menudo singer that the argument is going to be made
that this is new evidence that at least the second
jury did not get to hear that they that was
excluded at that time, and that they, under the laws
of California, should get a new trial.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It seemed kind of his long shot that they would
get that from the judge.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Then the next step would be a December hearing after
Hawkman has sworn in that that would be Gascon filing
for them to get parole or to get the charges
reduced so they wouldn't even have to go on.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Parole, that they would get out immediately.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And so what's position does he not?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Does he want to keep him in prison? Or is
he the middle of the road here?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
He says he's got to figure it out.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
He told us, is for the menendoses or for anyone.
We are not going to take a poll to decide
what to do. That's why I keep emphasizing that I've
got to do the work, the hard work of reviewing
the facts, reviewing the law, and be able to justify
in a court of law any decision I make.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I like for him, I'd like for him to
interview me. I'd like to be involved with this.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I should have had you come over to this and say, look,
he's going to be in fear for his life. So
I asked him, is he opened to these claims of
Gascon has put out there that they have been rehabilitated
in prison, and you hear the Kardashians and other celebrities
who have come out and they're making this claim.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And he said he doesn't know that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
He doesn't want to keep people locked up just for
the sake of keeping them locked up from ass incarceration.
But they also murdered their parents and they admit to it,
shooting them numerous times. He said, there is the crime.
You got to look at and understand that. Of course,
all of this came bubbling up after Netflix put out
their scripted series and their documentary. There was this swell
of support on TikTok and in the celebrity community. He said, no,
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that's not going to influence any of this.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
He said this, I mean, if you de signed this
case based on just reviewing a Netflix documentary, you're not
doing a You're doing a disservice to the Menendez brothers,
to the victim family members, to the public. A DA
has to do that hard work because you have to
have credibility in whatever decision I come to in court,
and then I have to be able to defend it
in court.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So he says he's got to take some time, he's
got to sit down He named a new chief of
staff yesterday. He's got a lot of other positions, he's
got a name, and they've got to go through this case.
They could delay that December, I think eleventh hearing that's
going to be coming up to say Judge, we need
more time.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We don't know what we're going to do.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
They could go in and say we no longer have
this position that we no longer support parole or probation
for these guys. We want them to remain. They'd have
to prove to a judge that they are a danger
to society. They should call you in to give you
a victim impact statement, or they may say, you know what,
the evidence is there that under the law of California,
it's right. We asked him about Gascon and the timing
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on everything. Gascon has said, Dad, this was not political,
that there was nothing there right before election day doing
all this, and he said.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, right now.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Part of the problem with the Gascon timing of his decision,
there's a cloud over that credibility. Is it a just
decision or was it just a political ploy? Again, there
will be no cloud over whatever decision I do, because
I will spend the time to thoroughly review the facts,
heat and the law and come up with the correct decision.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So you know, he pretty much said he doesn't know.
He could decide to continue with what his predecessor was doing,
but he may very well decide they want to reverse
it as well.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That they got to go through all the paperwork and
figure it out.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know, there's not a death penalty in this state
for molesting your kids, you know, but they but they
quickly decided there was and murdered their mom and dad
while they're eating yogurt and watching TV.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, and he made it clear today that the pressure
from Rosie O'Donnell and from the Kardashians and that is
not going to play a role in this. The politics,
he says, won't be playing a role. That he wants
to look at it like any other case of what
would somebody else get for doing this? Would they get
life without parole? And if they would, then the Menendez brothers,
he says, would would deserve that as well. Would you know,
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Joe Schmoe get out on fifty years probation and then
because of their age, it was going to be brought
down and then they would be allowed out should they
get that he said, they got to go through it
and they'll figure it out, but it may take some time.
It may not be that that December eleventh hearing.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And Alex you've been in the news for a long time.
What happens if they do get out? Are they treated
like celebrities? Do they have are they offered TV shows?
Do they do they get invited to the Grammys to
present a trophy deside?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I don't know about that, But then no doubt that
it would be everybody trying to get an interview. Some outlets,
not reputable news outlets, but some news outlets or some
outlets in general would try to pay for an interview.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
He would make money on that.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But after the initial you know, high on these ten kids,
what are they working at home?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Depot?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The family still, we believe has a lot of money,
but yeah, I mean security around them. Can you imagine
people who would want to get to them, even for
the notoriety of killing them?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, and then all of a sudden, it's you know,
presenting an oscar today, the Menendez brothers standing ovation for
these two.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, it's going to be nuts. There are still a
lot of avenues that could get them out, and we'll
see what what Hawkman decides he's going to do in this.
He could continue that effort as well. Most of these
are going to take a long time though, And he
brought that point up today that yeah, if it's parole,
it's got to go to the parole board. They don't
schedule anything for six months out then askco the governor. Technically,
with clemency, the govern still has to wait for recommendation
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from the parole Board if they go down for that,
and then it takes time. This is gonna take time,
it's all. It's not gonna be immediate. Remember Garago is
saying they'd be out by Thanksgiving. Right, we're getting pretty
darn close. Yeah, we're getting really close. But I really
appreciate you coming on ABC News. Is Alex Stone. Thank you,
Bob appreciated. Thanks Up there, he goes, Alex Stone. Gotta
keep those guys in prison, gotta keep them there, all right.
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The Dodgers are doing something. We saw fifty five thousand
people at Dodgers Stadium, another couple million at the Dodger Parade.
The Dodgers are renovating that stadium again. We'll come back,
We'll give you the blueprints, see what's new. I know
you want to know what's going on at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
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Stadium on a Sunday afternoon game that are capable of
hitting a home run are the guys with uniforms on. Right,
nobody in the stands could hit home run. Well, you
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(09:09):
dll ar and you could win one thousand dollars for
the holidays. You know, everybody could use a little a
couple of bucks over the holidays, all right. Dodgers Stadium
one of the most beautiful stadiums in the world. My
favorite stadium to go to because when you're watching the
Dodger game, you're in the middle of the city and
you can't see any buildings and you can't see, you know,
(09:31):
any businesses, no billboards. You look out and you could
just see mountains and you feel like you're a thousand
miles from Los Angeles. My first time at that stadium
nineteen sixty nine. Nineteen sixty nine, my dad took a
couple of us kids to the game and we set
way way way up on top in those they call
(09:52):
them the nosebleeders. I don't know if any people still
use that terminot, but even at that age, I'm like, uh, dad,
I think you're making a couple of bucks. I see
you know on the TV once, so I know that pays. Well.
We couldn't go closer, huh.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But it was mini bat night. I remember that everyone
got a mini bat. It's like, I don't know, eight
nine ten inches foot long and there's a many tiny
baseball bat. And then that stopped in the eighties when
a team came in. Everybody got a miniature bat, and
then there was a bad call on the field and
thousand of them made it to the field, throwing them
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at the players and the refts, and well that was over.
People ruin that, People ruin everything. That's cool, all right,
Dodgers Stadium. What are we going to look forward to
when we go back there in April? Is it gonna
be any different? Are we gonna notice the changes?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Fresh off a World Series victory and those mega celebrations
that followed, the Dodgers are now getting some new digs
thanks to this multi million dollar upgrade right here at
Dodger State.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Wow, these guys who own the Dodgers are loaded.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They're paying their players billion dollars. They've got enough money
to renovate that stadium.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Construction well underway.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Remember that when that team was sold, it was sold
I don't remember what year, it was, maybe two thousand
and eight or so, and they wanted one point two
billion dollars for that team, and Mark Cuban said that's
too much. You'll never get it. Now that team is
probably worth seven or eight billion dollars easily, easily. I
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think the most expensive team in baseball is the Yankees,
and then the Dodgers are second. All right, find out
what they're doing at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Construction well underway here at this iconic venue. By the
time the twenty twenty five MLB season begins next spring,
the boys in Blue will have a new clubhouse worthy
of the defending world champions. The home team clubhouse is
where lockers, showers, and communal or common spaces are located right.
(11:57):
Heavy machinery now covers much of the field, and signs
for the visitor and home team clubhouses have been torn down. Recently,
USA Today reported the renovations were costing an estimated one
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Wow. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Maybe those showers are lined with gold or something. Recent
renovations with centerfield plaza, for example, focused on the fan
experience with special features.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We have the renovations in the outfield where they connected
the entire stadium so you can walk around the entire stadium.
Before they did that, you if you were sitting in
the conventional seeds, you know, loge and loge, and you know,
you couldn't get to the grand stand. You could not
get from the grand stand to the normal seeds. Now
you can walk around the entire stadium.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
This time, it's all about the players at the Major
League Baseball's third oldest stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's already the third oldest stadium in baseball and it
was just built what in the sixties.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Some observers suspect the upgrades will help the Dodgers attract
top talent moving forward. KTLA's David Pingalore ways in.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
I don't know how much it is attracting top talent
because they already have.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, they got top talent already, billions of dollars.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
That's Hllary's tied up, especially with all their top players
from Mookie Bets, the show a tiny to Freddy Freeman
and of course Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Right, I think it's going
to make them want to stay better in the sense
of having better equipment. If it is actually for the players,
which I think it is, so having top notch equipment yep,
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for top notch talent, that's right. Maybe it just makes
them a little bit better and have that.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Edge, that's right. You know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
They couldn't go in and renovate the locker rooms without
pulling the seats up. So the first I think the
first twenty rows of seats where the dugout where the
dugouts were have been pulled up, and so you couldn't
get that heavy equipment in there unless you pull those
seats up. All those seats are going to be new,
you know, the first twenty rows way down, you know,
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close to the Dodgers and the visiting team. So it's
going to be a brand new stadium, Dodgers Stadium. It's
already the most beautiful, iconic stadium I think in America,
and it's even going to be better for players. You
may not notice a huge different difference when you go,
but man, is that a great ballpark. To sit there
and have a hot dog on a warm summer night
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with a beer or two or ten whatever you got rolling,
that is some move man. I think everybody listening right
now you know what I'm talking about. You know, going
with mom or dad or maybe taking your kids and
sit in that park where that warm sant Ana breeze
is blowing in your face at seven eight o'clock at
night and it's spectacular. And man, they always have a
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great team. Oh it is great Dodgers. One of the
best parts of Los Angeles. Always entertaining, always fun to watch,
always great to get out there. And now it's going
to be a little better.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Thanksgiving is around the corner, believe it or not, Thanksgiving
is what is it? I think two weeks from tomorrow.
I believe that's true. So yeah, Thanksgiving is the twenty
eighth of November. We're on the thirteenth, so tomorrow is Thursday,
and then a week from tomorrow is the twenty first,
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and then there's Thanksgiving. So we are two weeks away,
two weeks and one day away from Thanksgiving, and so
a lot of people I've already booked travel and now
they've thrown a wrench into it because Spirit Airlines and
Southwest Airlines and they're going through their own troubles. Spirit
(15:48):
Airlines looks like bankruptcy. They tried to emerge Spirit Airlines
with another airlines. I think it was Jeff Blue that
didn't work out. They've been shot at and in Haiti yesterday,
so they're not flying to Haiti anymore, and how profitable
that route was. But Southwest Airlines has also going through
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some struggles because they usually get eighty planes, or at
least this year, they're supposed to get eighty new planes
and they didn't. Whether there was a backlog, whether it
was the strike at Boeing, I don't know what happened,
but they're only getting twenty new planes, so they're laying
two thousand people off. Everybody's slimming down. A lot of
companies are losing a lot of employees because that's where
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all the money goes. So let's find out what's going
on over Thanksgiving. If you're on Spirit Airlines or Southwest Airlines,
you're going to want to hear that. You're going to
want to hear this. I've been a victim of this
in the past. My wife and I were supposed to
fly to Sacramento and then on to Portland. We got
to Sacramento and there was no pilots and no flight
attendants for our second flight. So we stayed in the
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airport for ten hours waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting,
and they finally said there's no flights going out today.
They booked us, and this is on December twenty second,
and they rebooked us, and they said, we got three
seats together. You're gonna love it, but you're not gonna
be leaving Sacramento for a little while. We've got you
on a flight leaving Sacramento to Portland on December twenty sixth,
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in the evening, the day after Christmas. This is on
the twenty second that they told us. Then, so twenty second,
twenty third, twenty fourth to four days later, four days later,
and we said we could walk there in four days.
You could literally walk from Sacramento to Portland in four days,
or at least ride a bike.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And so we had to rent a car and drive
the rest of the way. And it was a nightmare.
The luggage got lost.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It was a big, huge catastrophe, and it was I
seemed to be the entire vacation, always looking for either
new tickets, wait to get home, wear the bags, where
the luggage. I remember on Christmas Eve, my wife and
daughter were at a at her mom's at a big
Christmas Eve party, and I did drop them off on
near Portland and then drive to Seattle, which is about
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one hundred and fifty miles or so, to go pick
up the bags because they discovered that they were dropped
off in Seattle. So on Christmas Eve that year, I
spend it driving to Seattle and back.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And guess what, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I enjoyed it because the party was at my mother
in law's place and I had a perfect excuse to
get the hell out of there, like, oh man, Sherry,
I love your dinner, I love your house, but got
to go to Seattle to pick up these bags, seeing
about five hours.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Sorry, baby, gotta go.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I was gone, gone.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It looked great.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It was great because I dropped him off at my
mother in law's house and then went to Seattle and
came back just when the party was ending, picked him
up and went home. What a Christmas Eve one of
my favorites. Sorry too, honest, I guess all right, here's
what's going on with spirit in Southwest.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Arelagnificant developments from two major airlines could impact those holiday
travel plans which are just around the port.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
He's doing this between runways. He's standing between twenty four
left and twenty five right in the middle of these
two runways, God.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Which are just around the corner. For so long people
as Southwest Airlines now offers buyouts to airport workers in
several cities, including right here in Burbank and over at
lax as well.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Not good offering buyouts for Southwest employees. And you know
what it's like already when you travel around the holidays
that long TSA line. I remember being at Burbank Airport
and we got there maybe an hour and a half
before the flight, and the TSA line went out the
door and into the parking lot. I'm like, man, there's
got to be one thousand people in front of me.
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How long is this going to take? And surprisingly it
wasn't that bad. Everyone kept moving. We made our flight.
But the panic in you knowing that there are no
other seats available and you got to get there. The
panic starts early.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Meanwhile, Spirit Airlines is facing some financial troubles that could
lead to bankruptcy. Southwest Airlines has announced voluntary departure packages
or extended leave options for airport groundworkers in eighteen cities,
including Los Angeles, Burbank, Long Beach, and over at John
Wayne Airport. The buyouts come as Southwest struggles with costly
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new labor contracts and aircraft delivery delays, receiving only twenty
new planes this year.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, only twenty new ones.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
They're supposed to get eighty instead of the anticipated seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh seventy nine off by a plane.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
US employees who choose to accept the offer will leave
by the end of the year, and we'll receive that
buyout offer sometime this week. The airline previously said it
planned to end this year with two thousand fewer workers
than at the end of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know, I love Southwest Airlines, except that time that
I got hammered. But I prefer Southwest Airlines because everybody
on that airline, everybody works there, from the flight attendants
to the pilots, to the groundworkers, the baggage guys, you know,
the ticket ladies. I think that's what they still call them.
I don't know. Maybe I'm a you know, suck in
the seventies, Yes, all of them. That's right, ladies, ticket lady,
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a lighty lighting. But everybody seems to like working for Southwest.
And again I don't care if it's real or fake.
They seem to like working for Southwest. The people on
the plane, the flight attendants, they seem to enjoy working
on those planes. And I give them a lot of
kudos for that.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Are you Are you in favor of the doing away
the cattle call morning?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You know I'm not.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I like to have an assigned seat, Yes, I like
knowing where I'm going to be sitting. Yeah, you get
nervous when you're getting on the plane, Lake.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Yeah, it's a lot of anxious feelings. Everybody's on the
plane looking for a good seat and it's.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like get rid of that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I like you look every other airline you get a
seat in Southwest, it's like, I'll find your own, and.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's better enough.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
The people that you know in the airlines where you
do have an assigned seat, the people still outside of
the gate still line up and like crowd up to
the front, like it's going to make a difference because
everybody's worried about the check bag.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah. I like getting on the plane late, you know,
where you get on and go instead of you know,
get on and wait for an hour.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
I like going on last because I'm with you. If
they are full and they have to check my carry on,
I'm fine with that because those checked carry on so
the first thing that's out there when you get off,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Plus I also like walking through first class when they're
all seated to see if there's any I like looking
at richies, all the richies up front, and you don't
have noticed all the people. I noticed it early, like
twenty years ago, that every single person, without exception, in
first class, they have one thing in common. Everybody who
had a computer and it was open had a Mac.
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There was not one Windows guy up front everybody was
all macked out, nothing, all mac in front and then
you go back where the animals are, and you know
people have gas powered computers. Yeah, guys got a manual,
you know, calculator back.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
There to carry on.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Meanwhile, Spirit Airlines is reportedly in advanced talks to file
for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. This comes after a failed merger
with Frontier Airlines Frontier Okay, they're going to merge with
Frontier Frontier Airlines, and ongoing financial woes, including three point
three billion dollars in debt. Spirit has already begun cost
cutting measures, including selling off jets and cutting jobs, as
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the company's stock.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Is plunged by over sixty percent.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
These financial setbacks have raised questions about the future of
the low cost carrier and what it means for budget
conscious travelers.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We spoke to some of those travelers.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's who I hang out with, these conscious travel I'm
with the for budget conscious travelers. I'm with the budget
budget conscious travelers, and.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
With that crew budget conscious travelers.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, that's kind of an odd way to say, you know,
the unwashed, the poor animals.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, exactly, the scumbag right, Yeah, budget conscious travelers.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, they can't use scumbags anymore, so they just have
to call you a unwashed or budgeted.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
We spoke to some of those travelers here at Hollywood
Burbank Airport this morning.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Here's what they had to say. Okay, welcome back. This
is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
This affects Burbank, Lax Long Beach, Orange County. So if
you don't have your plane tickets yet, get them now,
and because they're gonna go up in price when you
start eliminating airlines, when Spirit goes away and Southwest is
reducing you know, their schedule, which they probably will when
they're only receiving, you know, twenty one quarter percent of
the new planes that they were promised.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
There's gonna be some tightening up, so you've got to
be aware of this.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Thanksgiving is two weeks from tomorrow, and you better have
a backup plan if you're flying, because you could be
sitting at the airport instead of at your mom's house
or dad's house, or bed partner's house, whoever's going. You
better have a backup plan. A lot of airlines shuffling
a lot of people around, and there's been a lot
(25:04):
of firings. A lot of people are getting paid to
take off out of Southwest Airlines Jet Spirit Airlines might
be out of business by the time Christmas comes around.
So if you're on Spirit, you better have a backup plan.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Hopefully everybody has a backup plan.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Dah, you see that? Better a backup plan.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Hopefully everybody has a backup plan.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Because you know, if you were paying attention in the
newspapers anything, you would have seen that Spirit was having sublight.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What year is this guy in we're paying attention to newspapers.
I saw a newspaper last night as the Pavilions. Man,
is that La Times getting thin? It looks like a leaflet.
When I was growing up, that La Times was three
inches thick, especially on a Sunday with all the classifieds
and man, now it's just like, you know, it's like
a flyer.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
You were paying attention in the newspapers or anything, you
would have seen that Spirit was having some financial problems.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Was that in the newspapers.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I didn't pick up the newspapers and that might be
another problem. I love that this guy thinks that people
are getting their news still from newspapers and he's working
at airline and he's like, no, you got to pick
up the newspaper.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And that might be another problem with him if everyone
starts castling.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
So I hope it really doesn't affect Southwest. I've been
flying Southwest since the day they opened. You think we'll
come through it, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I like this guy is my kind of guy.
Speaker 11 (26:18):
Really doesn't effect Southwest. I've been flying Southwest since the
day they opened. Got to think we'll come through it
all right.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, he's got a he's got a problem with his uh.
I think it sounds like a deviated septum was rolling
rolling Model Mansurance probably, you know that kind of guy.
Guy's breathes through his mouth and his nose while he's talking.
At the same time, I really really lunch loud. What's
our launch?
Speaker 10 (26:42):
And those holiday travelers could feel the impacts of these
airline challenges with flight delays and even some fewer available
flight options out there.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, very few options out there. And you know, and
I don't know what it is. I don't know what
you do, because it's gonna be you know, it's gonna
be a very difficult holiday, very very difficult.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Is anybody going into were crowds. You going anywhere for
the holidays, You're sticking around.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
I'm gonna stay home.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Good for you, think of you. Yeah, I'm going to
I don't know, I'm thinking about going to Oregon, but
we you know, we go up to Oregon every year.
And my buddy Johnny Hanson with the Bomb Squad, with
the LA Sheriff's Department, he's a yeah, shaky hands Hanson,
really horrible name for a guy on the bomb squad,
(27:28):
but he's uh, he's cool. And he always stays at
my place while I'm gone, and I feel safer when
I'm gone than when i'm there.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know the guy you know used to be a
the Sheriff's department is h you know, breaking like wipe
my mount.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Now that sofa is you know older? At some point you're.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yes, she's she's fifty two, while.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
She's so I mean, the thoughts of not doing the
Oregon thing.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Now, you know what.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That's funny you say that because you know you're right.
As your kids get older, they're not so much into
hanging out with cousins and family like that. They have
their own friends. Yeah, and so it is it is
something we're keeping an eye on. But she still loves
to go up there because she does have so many
friends up there. You know, I don't know, it always
seems like it will be you know, but it's such
(28:16):
a great hang up there because it could snow. You know,
the weather is great, and she loves it, which is terrific.
And this is really this was really important to me,
and I do remember this like it was yesterday. But
when she was when my daughter was six or maybe eight,
maybe nine, and we went to a lake up there,
and we have a ton my wife has a ton
(28:39):
of family members up there, and when we go to lake,
everybody goes of the same week in July or August,
and so there might be sixty people in the family
that go, and everybody know as either a camp or
they put a tent up. There are some you know,
hotel rooms there, but you know they're just basics. You know,
it's four walls and a toilet. But we but we
go up there, and we were supposed to go drive
(29:01):
up there just for the day, and my daughter was
going to spend just the day up there because we
weren't we didn't know that they were all going camping
that week and we sort of lost touch with a
couple of people. And we got there and spent the
day and she said, Dad, there's a there's an empty
spot there. Can we buy a tent and stay overnight?
And I'm like, yeah. We went to sporting good store,
bought a tent, you know, stayed overnight. And that was
(29:22):
the you know, the one night that it led to two, three, four,
and we spent five nights up there. We weren't even
planning on it, and all the you know, the families
were kind enough to invite us over for dinner or
lunch and whatever. It was really great. So here's the
point of that. So when we were leaving after being
there for five days, when we were only supposed to
spend an afternoon there and we stayed for five days,
on the way back home, my daughter was crying because
(29:46):
she had you know, she missed that and it had
such a great time. And I love the fact that
she got emotional lovel yes, you know, as opposed to yeah,
I can't wait to get home. You know, I'd screw
it if we do it again next year, It'd be fine.
If we don't. Who cares having that emotional attachment when
you're a kid and being emotional and crying. I went
through that when I was a kid. We would go
(30:08):
to Cleveland every summer and I'd stay with my grandparents
for June, July and August every year every year. And
then when my mom came to pick us up, it
was like death coming, you know, to grab us. And
I hated it. You know, I always counted, he's our
last Saturday. Here, It's gonna be our last Sunday. Here,
it's gonna be our last Monday. Mom comes tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
We got to straighten up because Mom's a little nutty.
And we'd leave Cleveland and we'd all get on the
plane and we were all six of us were hysterically
crying that we had to leave our grandparents. And and
I guarantee you there are people listening right now who said,
you know what, I'm doing the same thing. When I
was a kid, When you had to leave your grandparents' house,
(30:49):
you got really emotional because we spent June, July and
August with them without our parents every single year three months.
And then when I became a dad, I said to
my dad, I go, hey, Dad, how did how are
you able to to send six of your kids away
every summer for three months.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
How did you? How did you handle that?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Because I I literally when my daughter was born, she
didn't spend one day without me or my wife until
she was seven. Until she was seven, I didn't let
her stay anywhere, you know, she didn't stay at my
at her grandparents house, she didn't sleepover anything, and and
and I couldn't imagine, you know, saying, here, you're going
(31:29):
to your grandparents house for three months. I'm not going
to see you for three months. But yet they did
it different time. I guess.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
You know, I've never experienced anything like what you're talking about.
Life Like there was no go spend a month or
go spend a holiday and any family. I've never that
is so. I I find that incredibly awesome and romantic
in my head. And you know, I just never experienced that.
So and to hear so SO had those feelings too, Yeah,
(31:58):
just like you did.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's that's awesome stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right when I looked in the rear view mirror and
I saw her crying, I said, I love that. I
know the pain she's going through right now, and it's
going to be tough for the next hour. Or two whatever.
But I love that she had a connection to those people.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Living in the moment. Yeah, not thinking just right, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Exactly, not on an iPad going Okay, well that was that.
What's next? You know, salvat Baskin Robbin's on the way home,
you know, whatever the hell it was. But yeah, that
is really cool. All Right, Thanksgiving two weeks from tomorrow.
You better have a backup plan. If you're traveling on
Spirit and or Southwest Southwest, you'll probably be pretty good.
But Spirit Airlines is going through some tremendous troubles. So
(32:36):
if you're flying to Detroit, I know that's a big destination.
My sister goes there a lot to visit family and
friends to Detroit and in the Windsor, Canada area, that's
a big airline that goes Lax to Detroit NonStop. And
so you got to check to make sure that your
Thanksgiving plans are still on Conway Show on demand on
(32:58):
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It is the Conway Show. All right, dig dong with you.
One of our favorite reporters that we have on constantly
from ABC is a guy named Alex Stone, and he's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
With us today. Alex, how you bub ding dong? Be
you dig dong with you? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
How can we keep these Menanda's brothers in jail so
they don't kill me?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well, Nathan Hoffman might be able.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
To do it. Oh good, please, buddy.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Look, when this whole thing happened, I was working with
Doug Steckler on kalis X, the FM talk station not
there partly because of me, But I remember we went
after the Menanda's brothers all day every day because they
literally shot and murdered their parents. One of the kids
went out to the car, reloaded and went in and
finished mom off, and so we went after him. And
(00:50):
then when they got sentenced, when they got convicted, I'm
their lawyer, set on the air in a press conference.
You can't get a fair trial in this city because
idiots like Conway and Steckler.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Oh you got named, yes, yes, congratulations named and I
didn't even know you were that old.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But unless the Abrams said, because of guys like that.
So when these two idiots get out of jail, gets
who they're gonna kill me?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Watch out.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Look, if you're going to kill your mom and your
dad at their home while they're eating ice cream and
watching TV, you don't think they'd slide down one of
these streets and knock me.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Off and come to you.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
You know. The argument that Gara, Gillis and Gascon make
is if they are not a dangerous society, you'll be okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No, no, keep them in prison or else. I got
to hire a security well, I don't know that kind
of money.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You might have to coming up because they've got so
many different avenues out. But today we got to spend
some time at Nathan Hawkman's home and chat with him
and sit in his backyard and talk about the case,
the Menendez case, and the thing is, I mean, he
makes it very clear he doesn't know the case well
enough yet to post the convictions. But they're time in
(02:00):
prison and go through their prison records and what they've done.
He's got to go through all of that, and most
of it is confidential and he can't get to it
until he's sworn in in about two weeks, two and
a half weeks on December second. But they've got a
lot of different avenues trying to get out that they've
asked for the clemency. That's going to be up to
Governor Gavin Newso, no idea what he's going to do.
But sir Han, sir Han and some of the just
(02:24):
big names. Over the years of other Manson family members,
he has not granted them parole or clemency, So he
has a history of not doing it, so maybe he won't.
Then in about two weeks the Habeas Corpus hearing basically
claiming that there is new evidence and that they should
get a whole new trial. That'll be before Hawkman is
is in.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
But Alex, what is that based on just that that
they have been sexually molested by their dad?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, the the letter and then the testimony from the
Menudo singer that the argument is going to be made
that this is new evidence that at least the second
jury did not get to hear that they that was
excluded at that time, and that they, under the laws
of California, should get a new trial.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Out of it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It seemed kind of his long shot that they would
get that from the judge.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Then the next step would be a December hearing after
Hawkman has sworn in that that would be Gascon filing
for them to get parole or to get the charges
reduced so they wouldn't even have to go on.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Parole, that they would get out immediately.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
And so what's position does he not?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Does he want to keep him in prison? Or is
he the middle of the road here?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
He says he's got to figure it out.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
He told us, is for the menendoses or for anyone.
We are not going to take a poll to decide
what to do. That's why I keep emphasizing that I've
got to do the work, the hard work of reviewing
the facts, reviewing the law, and be able to justify
in a court of law any decision I make.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I like for him, I'd like for him to
interview me. I'd like to be involved with this.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I should have had you come over to this and say, look,
he's going to be in fear for his life. So
I asked him, is he opened to these claims of
Gascon has put out there that they have been rehabilitated
in prison, and you hear the Kardashians and other celebrities
who have come out and they're making this claim.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And he said he doesn't know that.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
He doesn't want to keep people locked up just for
the sake of keeping them locked up from ass incarceration.
But they also murdered their parents and they admit to it,
shooting them numerous times. He said, there is the crime.
You got to look at and understand that. Of course,
all of this came bubbling up after Netflix put out
their scripted series and their documentary. There was this swell
of support on TikTok and in the celebrity community. He said, no,
(04:28):
that's not going to influence any of this.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
He said this, I mean, if you de signed this
case based on just reviewing a Netflix documentary, you're not
doing a You're doing a disservice to the Menendez brothers,
to the victim family members, to the public. A DA
has to do that hard work because you have to
have credibility in whatever decision I come to in court,
and then I have to be able to defend it
in court.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So he says he's got to take some time, he's
got to sit down He named a new chief of
staff yesterday. He's got a lot of other positions, he's
got a name, and they've got to go through this case.
They could delay that December, I think eleventh hearing that's
going to be coming up to say Judge, we need
more time.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We don't know what we're going to do.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
They could go in and say we no longer have
this position that we no longer support parole or probation
for these guys. We want them to remain. They'd have
to prove to a judge that they are a danger
to society. They should call you in to give you
a victim impact statement, or they may say, you know what,
the evidence is there that under the law of California,
it's right. We asked him about Gascon and the timing
(05:29):
on everything. Gascon has said, Dad, this was not political,
that there was nothing there right before election day doing
all this, and he said.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, right now.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Part of the problem with the Gascon timing of his decision,
there's a cloud over that credibility. Is it a just
decision or was it just a political ploy? Again, there
will be no cloud over whatever decision I do, because
I will spend the time to thoroughly review the facts,
heat and the law and come up with the correct decision.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
So you know, he pretty much said he doesn't know.
He could decide to continue with what his predecessor was doing,
but he may very well decide they want to reverse
it as well.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That they got to go through all the paperwork and
figure it out.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You know, there's not a death penalty in this state
for molesting your kids, you know, but they but they
quickly decided there was and murdered their mom and dad
while they're eating yogurt and watching TV.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yeah, and he made it clear today that the pressure
from Rosie O'Donnell and from the Kardashians and that is
not going to play a role in this. The politics,
he says, won't be playing a role. That he wants
to look at it like any other case of what
would somebody else get for doing this? Would they get
life without parole? And if they would, then the Menendez brothers,
he says, would would deserve that as well. Would you know,
(06:41):
Joe Schmoe get out on fifty years probation and then
because of their age, it was going to be brought
down and then they would be allowed out should they
get that he said, they got to go through it
and they'll figure it out, but it may take some time.
It may not be that that December eleventh hearing.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And Alex you've been in the news for a long time.
What happens if they do get out? Are they treated
like celebrities? Do they have are they offered TV shows?
Do they do they get invited to the Grammys to
present a trophy deside?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I don't know about that, But then no doubt that
it would be everybody trying to get an interview. Some outlets,
not reputable news outlets, but some news outlets or some
outlets in general would try to pay for an interview.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
He would make money on that.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But after the initial you know, high on these ten kids,
what are they working at home?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Depot?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The family still, we believe has a lot of money,
but yeah, I mean security around them. Can you imagine
people who would want to get to them, even for
the notoriety of killing them?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Right, and then all of a sudden, it's you know,
presenting an oscar today, the Menendez brothers standing ovation for
these two.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, it's going to be nuts. There are still a
lot of avenues that could get them out, and we'll
see what what Hawkman decides he's going to do in this.
He could continue that effort as well. Most of these
are going to take a long time though, And he
brought that point up today that yeah, if it's parole,
it's got to go to the parole board. They don't
schedule anything for six months out then askco the governor. Technically,
with clemency, the govern still has to wait for recommendation
(08:01):
from the parole Board if they go down for that,
and then it takes time. This is gonna take time,
it's all. It's not gonna be immediate. Remember Garago is
saying they'd be out by Thanksgiving. Right, we're getting pretty
darn close. Yeah, we're getting really close. But I really
appreciate you coming on ABC News. Is Alex Stone. Thank you,
Bob appreciated. Thanks Up there, he goes, Alex Stone. Gotta
keep those guys in prison, gotta keep them there, all right.
(08:24):
The Dodgers are doing something. We saw fifty five thousand
people at Dodgers Stadium, another couple million at the Dodger Parade.
The Dodgers are renovating that stadium again. We'll come back,
We'll give you the blueprints, see what's new. I know
you want to know what's going on at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
My uncle used to say, the only guys at Dodgers
Stadium on a Sunday afternoon game that are capable of
hitting a home run are the guys with uniforms on. Right,
nobody in the stands could hit home run. Well, you
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(09:09):
dll ar and you could win one thousand dollars for
the holidays. You know, everybody could use a little a
couple of bucks over the holidays, all right. Dodgers Stadium
one of the most beautiful stadiums in the world. My
favorite stadium to go to because when you're watching the
Dodger game, you're in the middle of the city and
you can't see any buildings and you can't see, you know,
(09:31):
any businesses, no billboards. You look out and you could
just see mountains and you feel like you're a thousand
miles from Los Angeles. My first time at that stadium
nineteen sixty nine. Nineteen sixty nine, my dad took a
couple of us kids to the game and we set
way way way up on top in those they call
(09:52):
them the nosebleeders. I don't know if any people still
use that terminot, but even at that age, I'm like, uh, dad,
I think you're making a couple of bucks. I see
you know on the TV once, so I know that pays. Well.
We couldn't go closer, huh.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I know.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But it was mini bat night. I remember that everyone
got a mini bat. It's like, I don't know, eight
nine ten inches foot long and there's a many tiny
baseball bat. And then that stopped in the eighties when
a team came in. Everybody got a miniature bat, and
then there was a bad call on the field and
thousand of them made it to the field, throwing them
(10:29):
at the players and the refts, and well that was over.
People ruin that, People ruin everything. That's cool, all right,
Dodgers Stadium. What are we going to look forward to
when we go back there in April? Is it gonna
be any different? Are we gonna notice the changes?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Fresh off a World Series victory and those mega celebrations
that followed, the Dodgers are now getting some new digs
thanks to this multi million dollar upgrade right here at
Dodger State.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Wow, these guys who own the Dodgers are loaded.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They're paying their players billion dollars. They've got enough money
to renovate that stadium.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Construction well underway.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Remember that when that team was sold, it was sold
I don't remember what year, it was, maybe two thousand
and eight or so, and they wanted one point two
billion dollars for that team, and Mark Cuban said that's
too much. You'll never get it. Now that team is
probably worth seven or eight billion dollars easily, easily. I
(11:30):
think the most expensive team in baseball is the Yankees,
and then the Dodgers are second. All right, find out
what they're doing at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Construction well underway here at this iconic venue. By the
time the twenty twenty five MLB season begins next spring,
the boys in Blue will have a new clubhouse worthy
of the defending world champions. The home team clubhouse is
where lockers, showers, and communal or common spaces are located right.
(11:57):
Heavy machinery now covers much of the field, and signs
for the visitor and home team clubhouses have been torn down. Recently,
USA Today reported the renovations were costing an estimated one
hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Wow. I don't know.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Maybe those showers are lined with gold or something. Recent
renovations with centerfield plaza, for example, focused on the fan
experience with special features.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
We have the renovations in the outfield where they connected
the entire stadium so you can walk around the entire stadium.
Before they did that, you if you were sitting in
the conventional seeds, you know, loge and loge, and you know,
you couldn't get to the grand stand. You could not
get from the grand stand to the normal seeds. Now
you can walk around the entire stadium.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
This time, it's all about the players at the Major
League Baseball's third oldest stadium.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Isn't that wild?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
That's already the third oldest stadium in baseball and it
was just built what in the sixties.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Some observers suspect the upgrades will help the Dodgers attract
top talent moving forward. KTLA's David Pingalore ways in.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
I don't know how much it is attracting top talent
because they already have.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, they got top talent already, billions of dollars.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
That's Hllary's tied up, especially with all their top players
from Mookie Bets, the show a tiny to Freddy Freeman
and of course Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Right, I think it's going
to make them want to stay better in the sense
of having better equipment. If it is actually for the players,
which I think it is, so having top notch equipment yep,
(13:35):
for top notch talent, that's right. Maybe it just makes
them a little bit better and have that.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Edge, that's right. You know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
They couldn't go in and renovate the locker rooms without
pulling the seats up. So the first I think the
first twenty rows of seats where the dugout where the
dugouts were have been pulled up, and so you couldn't
get that heavy equipment in there unless you pull those
seats up. All those seats are going to be new,
you know, the first twenty rows way down, you know,
(14:05):
close to the Dodgers and the visiting team. So it's
going to be a brand new stadium, Dodgers Stadium. It's
already the most beautiful, iconic stadium I think in America,
and it's even going to be better for players. You
may not notice a huge different difference when you go,
but man, is that a great ballpark. To sit there
and have a hot dog on a warm summer night
(14:26):
with a beer or two or ten whatever you got rolling,
that is some move man. I think everybody listening right
now you know what I'm talking about. You know, going
with mom or dad or maybe taking your kids and
sit in that park where that warm sant Ana breeze
is blowing in your face at seven eight o'clock at
night and it's spectacular. And man, they always have a
(14:48):
great team. Oh it is great Dodgers. One of the
best parts of Los Angeles. Always entertaining, always fun to watch,
always great to get out there. And now it's going
to be a little better.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Thanksgiving is around the corner, believe it or not, Thanksgiving
is what is it? I think two weeks from tomorrow.
I believe that's true. So yeah, Thanksgiving is the twenty
eighth of November. We're on the thirteenth, so tomorrow is Thursday,
and then a week from tomorrow is the twenty first,
(15:28):
and then there's Thanksgiving. So we are two weeks away,
two weeks and one day away from Thanksgiving, and so
a lot of people I've already booked travel and now
they've thrown a wrench into it because Spirit Airlines and
Southwest Airlines and they're going through their own troubles. Spirit
(15:48):
Airlines looks like bankruptcy. They tried to emerge Spirit Airlines
with another airlines. I think it was Jeff Blue that
didn't work out. They've been shot at and in Haiti yesterday,
so they're not flying to Haiti anymore, and how profitable
that route was. But Southwest Airlines has also going through
(16:09):
some struggles because they usually get eighty planes, or at
least this year, they're supposed to get eighty new planes
and they didn't. Whether there was a backlog, whether it
was the strike at Boeing, I don't know what happened,
but they're only getting twenty new planes, so they're laying
two thousand people off. Everybody's slimming down. A lot of
companies are losing a lot of employees because that's where
(16:32):
all the money goes. So let's find out what's going
on over Thanksgiving. If you're on Spirit Airlines or Southwest Airlines,
you're going to want to hear that. You're going to
want to hear this. I've been a victim of this
in the past. My wife and I were supposed to
fly to Sacramento and then on to Portland. We got
to Sacramento and there was no pilots and no flight
attendants for our second flight. So we stayed in the
(16:53):
airport for ten hours waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting,
and they finally said there's no flights going out today.
They booked us, and this is on December twenty second,
and they rebooked us, and they said, we got three
seats together. You're gonna love it, but you're not gonna
be leaving Sacramento for a little while. We've got you
on a flight leaving Sacramento to Portland on December twenty sixth,
(17:17):
in the evening, the day after Christmas. This is on
the twenty second that they told us. Then, so twenty second,
twenty third, twenty fourth to four days later, four days later,
and we said we could walk there in four days.
You could literally walk from Sacramento to Portland in four days,
or at least ride a bike.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And so we had to rent a car and drive
the rest of the way. And it was a nightmare.
The luggage got lost.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It was a big, huge catastrophe, and it was I
seemed to be the entire vacation, always looking for either
new tickets, wait to get home, wear the bags, where
the luggage. I remember on Christmas Eve, my wife and
daughter were at a at her mom's at a big
Christmas Eve party, and I did drop them off on
near Portland and then drive to Seattle, which is about
(17:58):
one hundred and fifty miles or so, to go pick
up the bags because they discovered that they were dropped
off in Seattle. So on Christmas Eve that year, I
spend it driving to Seattle and back.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
And guess what, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I enjoyed it because the party was at my mother
in law's place and I had a perfect excuse to
get the hell out of there, like, oh man, Sherry,
I love your dinner, I love your house, but got
to go to Seattle to pick up these bags, seeing
about five hours.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
Sorry, baby, gotta go.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I was gone, gone.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
It looked great.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
It was great because I dropped him off at my
mother in law's house and then went to Seattle and
came back just when the party was ending, picked him
up and went home. What a Christmas Eve one of
my favorites. Sorry too, honest, I guess all right, here's
what's going on with spirit in Southwest.
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Arelagnificant developments from two major airlines could impact those holiday
travel plans which are just around the port.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
He's doing this between runways. He's standing between twenty four
left and twenty five right in the middle of these
two runways, God.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Which are just around the corner. For so long people
as Southwest Airlines now offers buyouts to airport workers in
several cities, including right here in Burbank and over at
lax as well.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Not good offering buyouts for Southwest employees. And you know
what it's like already when you travel around the holidays
that long TSA line. I remember being at Burbank Airport
and we got there maybe an hour and a half
before the flight, and the TSA line went out the
door and into the parking lot. I'm like, man, there's
got to be one thousand people in front of me.
(19:39):
How long is this going to take? And surprisingly it
wasn't that bad. Everyone kept moving. We made our flight.
But the panic in you knowing that there are no
other seats available and you got to get there. The
panic starts early.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Meanwhile, Spirit Airlines is facing some financial troubles that could
lead to bankruptcy. Southwest Airlines has announced voluntary departure packages
or extended leave options for airport groundworkers in eighteen cities,
including Los Angeles, Burbank, Long Beach, and over at John
Wayne Airport. The buyouts come as Southwest struggles with costly
(20:13):
new labor contracts and aircraft delivery delays, receiving only twenty
new planes this year.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, only twenty new ones.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
They're supposed to get eighty instead of the anticipated seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh seventy nine off by a plane.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
US employees who choose to accept the offer will leave
by the end of the year, and we'll receive that
buyout offer sometime this week. The airline previously said it
planned to end this year with two thousand fewer workers
than at the end of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know, I love Southwest Airlines, except that time that
I got hammered. But I prefer Southwest Airlines because everybody
on that airline, everybody works there, from the flight attendants
to the pilots, to the groundworkers, the baggage guys, you know,
the ticket ladies. I think that's what they still call them.
I don't know. Maybe I'm a you know, suck in
the seventies, Yes, all of them. That's right, ladies, ticket lady,
(21:04):
a lighty lighting. But everybody seems to like working for Southwest.
And again I don't care if it's real or fake.
They seem to like working for Southwest. The people on
the plane, the flight attendants, they seem to enjoy working
on those planes. And I give them a lot of
kudos for that.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Are you Are you in favor of the doing away
the cattle call morning?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You know I'm not.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I like to have an assigned seat, Yes, I like
knowing where I'm going to be sitting. Yeah, you get
nervous when you're getting on the plane, Lake.
Speaker 9 (21:36):
Yeah, it's a lot of anxious feelings. Everybody's on the
plane looking for a good seat and it's.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Like get rid of that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I like you look every other airline you get a
seat in Southwest, it's like, I'll find your own, and.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's better enough.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
The people that you know in the airlines where you
do have an assigned seat, the people still outside of
the gate still line up and like crowd up to
the front, like it's going to make a difference because
everybody's worried about the check bag.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah. I like getting on the plane late, you know,
where you get on and go instead of you know,
get on and wait for an hour.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
I like going on last because I'm with you. If
they are full and they have to check my carry on,
I'm fine with that because those checked carry on so
the first thing that's out there when you get off,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Plus I also like walking through first class when they're
all seated to see if there's any I like looking
at richies, all the richies up front, and you don't
have noticed all the people. I noticed it early, like
twenty years ago, that every single person, without exception, in
first class, they have one thing in common. Everybody who
had a computer and it was open had a Mac.
(22:39):
There was not one Windows guy up front everybody was
all macked out, nothing, all mac in front and then
you go back where the animals are, and you know
people have gas powered computers. Yeah, guys got a manual,
you know, calculator back.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
There to carry on.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Meanwhile, Spirit Airlines is reportedly in advanced talks to file
for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. This comes after a failed merger
with Frontier Airlines Frontier Okay, they're going to merge with
Frontier Frontier Airlines, and ongoing financial woes, including three point
three billion dollars in debt. Spirit has already begun cost
cutting measures, including selling off jets and cutting jobs, as
(23:24):
the company's stock.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Is plunged by over sixty percent.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
These financial setbacks have raised questions about the future of
the low cost carrier and what it means for budget
conscious travelers.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We spoke to some of those travelers.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's who I hang out with, these conscious travel I'm
with the for budget conscious travelers. I'm with the budget
budget conscious travelers, and.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
With that crew budget conscious travelers.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yeah, that's kind of an odd way to say, you know,
the unwashed, the poor animals.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, exactly, the scumbag right, Yeah, budget conscious travelers.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, they can't use scumbags anymore, so they just have
to call you a unwashed or budgeted.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
We spoke to some of those travelers here at Hollywood
Burbank Airport this morning.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Here's what they had to say. Okay, welcome back. This
is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
This affects Burbank, Lax Long Beach, Orange County. So if
you don't have your plane tickets yet, get them now,
and because they're gonna go up in price when you
start eliminating airlines, when Spirit goes away and Southwest is
reducing you know, their schedule, which they probably will when
they're only receiving, you know, twenty one quarter percent of
the new planes that they were promised.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
There's gonna be some tightening up, so you've got to
be aware of this.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Thanksgiving is two weeks from tomorrow, and you better have
a backup plan if you're flying, because you could be
sitting at the airport instead of at your mom's house
or dad's house, or bed partner's house, whoever's going. You
better have a backup plan. A lot of airlines shuffling
a lot of people around, and there's been a lot
(25:04):
of firings. A lot of people are getting paid to
take off out of Southwest Airlines Jet Spirit Airlines might
be out of business by the time Christmas comes around.
So if you're on Spirit, you better have a backup plan.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Hopefully everybody has a backup plan.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Dah, you see that? Better a backup plan.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Hopefully everybody has a backup plan.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Because you know, if you were paying attention in the
newspapers anything, you would have seen that Spirit was having sublight.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What year is this guy in we're paying attention to newspapers.
I saw a newspaper last night as the Pavilions. Man,
is that La Times getting thin? It looks like a leaflet.
When I was growing up, that La Times was three
inches thick, especially on a Sunday with all the classifieds
and man, now it's just like, you know, it's like
a flyer.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
You were paying attention in the newspapers or anything, you
would have seen that Spirit was having some financial problems.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Was that in the newspapers.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I didn't pick up the newspapers and that might be
another problem. I love that this guy thinks that people
are getting their news still from newspapers and he's working
at airline and he's like, no, you got to pick
up the newspaper.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And that might be another problem with him if everyone
starts castling.
Speaker 11 (26:08):
So I hope it really doesn't affect Southwest. I've been
flying Southwest since the day they opened. You think we'll
come through it, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I like this guy is my kind of guy.
Speaker 11 (26:18):
Really doesn't effect Southwest. I've been flying Southwest since the
day they opened. Got to think we'll come through it
all right.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, he's got a he's got a problem with his uh.
I think it sounds like a deviated septum was rolling
rolling Model Mansurance probably, you know that kind of guy.
Guy's breathes through his mouth and his nose while he's talking.
At the same time, I really really lunch loud. What's
our launch?
Speaker 10 (26:42):
And those holiday travelers could feel the impacts of these
airline challenges with flight delays and even some fewer available
flight options out there.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, very few options out there. And you know, and
I don't know what it is. I don't know what
you do, because it's gonna be you know, it's gonna
be a very difficult holiday, very very difficult.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Is anybody going into were crowds. You going anywhere for
the holidays, You're sticking around.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
I'm gonna stay home.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Good for you, think of you. Yeah, I'm going to
I don't know, I'm thinking about going to Oregon, but
we you know, we go up to Oregon every year.
And my buddy Johnny Hanson with the Bomb Squad, with
the LA Sheriff's Department, he's a yeah, shaky hands Hanson,
really horrible name for a guy on the bomb squad,
(27:28):
but he's uh, he's cool. And he always stays at
my place while I'm gone, and I feel safer when
I'm gone than when i'm there.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know the guy you know used to be a
the Sheriff's department is h you know, breaking like wipe
my mount.
Speaker 9 (27:42):
Now that sofa is you know older? At some point you're.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yes, she's she's fifty two, while.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
She's so I mean, the thoughts of not doing the
Oregon thing.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Now, you know what.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That's funny you say that because you know you're right.
As your kids get older, they're not so much into
hanging out with cousins and family like that. They have
their own friends. Yeah, and so it is it is
something we're keeping an eye on. But she still loves
to go up there because she does have so many
friends up there. You know, I don't know, it always
seems like it will be you know, but it's such
(28:16):
a great hang up there because it could snow. You know,
the weather is great, and she loves it, which is terrific.
And this is really this was really important to me,
and I do remember this like it was yesterday. But
when she was when my daughter was six or maybe eight,
maybe nine, and we went to a lake up there,
and we have a ton my wife has a ton
(28:39):
of family members up there, and when we go to lake,
everybody goes of the same week in July or August,
and so there might be sixty people in the family
that go, and everybody know as either a camp or
they put a tent up. There are some you know,
hotel rooms there, but you know they're just basics. You know,
it's four walls and a toilet. But we but we
go up there, and we were supposed to go drive
(29:01):
up there just for the day, and my daughter was
going to spend just the day up there because we
weren't we didn't know that they were all going camping
that week and we sort of lost touch with a
couple of people. And we got there and spent the
day and she said, Dad, there's a there's an empty
spot there. Can we buy a tent and stay overnight?
And I'm like, yeah. We went to sporting good store,
bought a tent, you know, stayed overnight. And that was
(29:22):
the you know, the one night that it led to two, three, four,
and we spent five nights up there. We weren't even
planning on it, and all the you know, the families
were kind enough to invite us over for dinner or
lunch and whatever. It was really great. So here's the
point of that. So when we were leaving after being
there for five days, when we were only supposed to
spend an afternoon there and we stayed for five days,
on the way back home, my daughter was crying because
(29:46):
she had you know, she missed that and it had
such a great time. And I love the fact that
she got emotional lovel yes, you know, as opposed to yeah,
I can't wait to get home. You know, I'd screw
it if we do it again next year, It'd be fine.
If we don't. Who cares having that emotional attachment when
you're a kid and being emotional and crying. I went
through that when I was a kid. We would go
(30:08):
to Cleveland every summer and I'd stay with my grandparents
for June, July and August every year every year. And
then when my mom came to pick us up, it
was like death coming, you know, to grab us. And
I hated it. You know, I always counted, he's our
last Saturday. Here, It's gonna be our last Sunday. Here,
it's gonna be our last Monday. Mom comes tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
We got to straighten up because Mom's a little nutty.
And we'd leave Cleveland and we'd all get on the
plane and we were all six of us were hysterically
crying that we had to leave our grandparents. And and
I guarantee you there are people listening right now who said,
you know what, I'm doing the same thing. When I
was a kid, When you had to leave your grandparents' house,
(30:49):
you got really emotional because we spent June, July and
August with them without our parents every single year three months.
And then when I became a dad, I said to
my dad, I go, hey, Dad, how did how are
you able to to send six of your kids away
every summer for three months.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
How did you? How did you handle that?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Because I I literally when my daughter was born, she
didn't spend one day without me or my wife until
she was seven. Until she was seven, I didn't let
her stay anywhere, you know, she didn't stay at my
at her grandparents house, she didn't sleepover anything, and and
and I couldn't imagine, you know, saying, here, you're going
(31:29):
to your grandparents house for three months. I'm not going
to see you for three months. But yet they did
it different time. I guess.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
You know, I've never experienced anything like what you're talking about.
Life Like there was no go spend a month or
go spend a holiday and any family. I've never that
is so. I I find that incredibly awesome and romantic
in my head. And you know, I just never experienced that.
So and to hear so SO had those feelings too, Yeah,
(31:58):
just like you did.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's that's awesome stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Right when I looked in the rear view mirror and
I saw her crying, I said, I love that. I
know the pain she's going through right now, and it's
going to be tough for the next hour. Or two whatever.
But I love that she had a connection to those people.
Speaker 9 (32:12):
Living in the moment. Yeah, not thinking just right, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Exactly, not on an iPad going Okay, well that was that.
What's next? You know, salvat Baskin Robbin's on the way home,
you know, whatever the hell it was. But yeah, that
is really cool. All Right, Thanksgiving two weeks from tomorrow.
You better have a backup plan. If you're traveling on
Spirit and or Southwest Southwest, you'll probably be pretty good.
But Spirit Airlines is going through some tremendous troubles. So
(32:36):
if you're flying to Detroit, I know that's a big destination.
My sister goes there a lot to visit family and
friends to Detroit and in the Windsor, Canada area, that's
a big airline that goes Lax to Detroit NonStop. And
so you got to check to make sure that your
Thanksgiving plans are still on Conway Show on demand on
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